HAVE to KNOW this!

So contact lenses….. (-_-*)  Mixed feelings for a while….

 

I’ve had such a problem with them, I’ve bought about 4-5 pairs (different colours from different suppliers) and I always had the problem of the colour not being intense enough/showing up enough on my naturally dark eyes.. So I’ve obviously lost a large amount of money to these failures…  *le sigh*

 

But Im not saying the suppliers I’ve bought from are unreliable, they are all very good and well trusted suppliers, just I’ve had really bad luck over the past 2 years. So I’ve had to enhance the colour in photo shop a lot, which I really don’t like doing. 

ANYWAY! Good news! I finally have lenses that show up which I bought from a awesome friend of mine! All her lenses are really well priced and last a great length of time, not to mention I find them super comfortable! ;3; There are all types of lenses, sclera ones (which are crazy ass!), block lenses and tone lenses. o(>~<)o

Check out her store and websites here::::
* Doki! Doki! Cosplay Shop Blogspot (There are also contact forms on her site)

* Baka Sakura’s Costuming & Crafts Facebook page

* Baka Sakura Facebook account

* email address: cosplaying.sakura@gmail.com

Baka-chan is super friendly so don’t feel shy to ask her about her contacts and other super cute accessories and wigs she sells!

Here a few zoomed-in-cropped pics of the contacts (no editing T3T)

^ (sky blue block lens) Photo by MWEST photography & digital training

 

^ (sky blue block lens) Photo by MWEST photography & digital training

 

^ (sapphire blue block lens) Photo by Kalyee Pereira Photography

^ (sapphire blue block lens) 

My natural eye colour:

So now you can see how freaken awesome these contacts are! >:D
I can’t stop staring at my blue eyes, I feel like such a pervy creep to myself…! *slaps self* X)

On another topic, I’m very busy with my new course at university and my new cosplays/ cosplay performances, just to let you know! I haven’t died or anything X’D

That’s all for now! >v<
xx

Finally Here!!

So I’ve finally settled in in Cape Town!

Bought all the last minute stuff, hung up all my cosplay outfits nicely and flung my normal clothes in the cupboard, as one would do. (*^^*)

I’m really excited for the Japanese Consulate Event this coming weekend (23 Feb)! Finally gonna be able to meet some local cosplay peeps in da flesh…….! >:D
Myself, 2 of my cosplay team mates KomboKitten and Baka Sakura, along with a new friend are going to be cosplaying as Vocaloid’s Panda Hero; Kaito, Gumi, Luka and Teto, respectively. Just gotta sew up one thing on my outfit and then I’m all good! So excited!!

Will update again after the event!
xx

My February Cosplay feature! *GES SA*

I was recently interviewed by GES SA as the February Cosplayer! ^v^

Feel free to check it out here!!

XD Kahaha I feel so emabressed while laughing at my self, seeing my cosplay progress from 2006! BWUAHAHAHA! X’D  *shoots self* Ah but we all gotta start somewhere, and we only get better with practise.

Anyway that’s all for now! Keen for the up coming February event!
See some of you there! ~(^u^)~

2013 Line Up!

Already a month into the year! o.O That went by quickly…….

I have many cosplay plans lined up this year, as well as some interesting news! 
First off, my cosplay line up and events I will be attending, in the first half of the year.

23 Feb – Japanese Consulate Event: Vocaloid Kaito Panda Hero
3(?) March – Voca Ice-skating: Vocaloid Kaito and/or Gumi
20 April – Cape Town Cosplay Picnic: Ittoki Otoya or Ichinose Tokiya
4 May – Free Comic Book Day Event: It’s a secret 

Now for the interesting news!!
Myself and KomboKitten have formed a team in hope of making the cut for the very first South African team which will attend the World Cosplay Summit!  We will be working hard together in the coming year to bring you the best of our cosplays. I hope you will support us and South Africa’s effort to do their best to get a team! 

I have also recently joined up with Cosplay Studio X  , and together we will cosplay many new and exciting things! 

That’s all for now!
じゃね！ｘｘ

2013 with a BANG~!

Hooooo! Happy NEW YEAR everyone!!!
Can’t believe it’s not 2012 anymore o.O; haha…..

 

Just a little update about what’s happened so far and what is still to come! >:3

Recently I was asked to do and interview for Gamezmentor! Ah it was really great, I had a ton of fun doing it, even though I spoke Chinglish half the time X’)
You can read/watch my interview here! ;3;

 

In other related cosplay news, I finally got off my butt and went out to buy material for my new cosplay(s)!

I’m working on Fushimi Saruhiko (K Project) now T3T  then I have Kaito (Vocaloid), Ichinose and Ittoki (UtaPri) lined up. Really excited to get them done, ordered all the wigs and contacts so long, as well as my new chest binder \ ˚▽˚ / haha~

^ Fushimi’s material ╥▽╥

 

Oh, I have to mention!! Someone mentioned that I had done the whole of team 7 in cosplay XD and its true! Kahaha! I laughed so hard…..!
And look at the really cute pic that was made for me ;3;

And this team 7 thing was so unintentional ≧ω≦

 

Also how awesome is this fanart of my one cosplay pics?? (♥♥,)
SADSKDHGKF!! It’s so freaken cool!

art by Nakashi

its a fanart of this pic ~~

(っ◕‿◕)っ ♥ I love it so much!

 

Anyway, that’s all for now!
♪┏(・o･)┛♪┗ ( ･o･) ┓♪

My 2012 experience

So 2012 is practically over! Can’t believe it, this year has really gone by in a flash.

So a short summary of my 2012~

Life~

A few twist and turns, ups and down but I pulled through.

Accomplished some of my goals.

Finally got my license.

Really miss China ToT  I wanna go back~haha

Studies & Work~

Well as for studies, I made it through 2nd year haha

but next year I might study somewhere else, China hopefully!! <3

Work wise, been good, made more money this year than I expected haha

next year I wont to get a proper job though. D:

Cosplay~

Ah yes, this, this is the best!!

I would be so bored with out it!! It also keeps me busy which I really enjoy

I really love doing this, it’s so much fun and I get to meet so many amazing people, make new friends and travel around a little haha~!

Ive done a fair few cosplays this year, I hope to up the standard of my cosplay in 2013!!

Sewing until 4 in the morning, preparing things till 2 in the morning the day before the con, wondering if I’ll finish my costumes in time, ah yes haha, this is the way to go X’)

All in all, I’ve had a really great year, filled with many amazing memories.
Thank you all for everything and I hope you have a great NY day!
Good luck for 2013! x

Birthday 26/12/2012

I feel so old now….! Why must I get older?? Couldn’t I get younger~~ (˚▽˚)?

Ah anyway, I had a great day! Lots of chocolate, sweets and cake haha~ and got some awesome presents!!
I cant believe it, but I’m actually a little sick of sweets for the time being. (o.O)

I’m sorry Gin-chan………!!!! I will hurry up and start craving sweets again then we can nom them together!!! X)

My cake!! <33

Ah it was so nommy~~  ≧w≦

Oh, I must mention that I received some lovely birthday postcards in the mail as well!
Thank you so much for them!! I really love them!! <33

When I logged on facebook, (Ah there were so many notifications, friend request and messages I was so shocked hahaha), I saw that Kimiko-chan had made a really cute collaboration of my photos as a birthday post! <33 I was so happy, so sweet of her!!

I really love it!!

I also noticed I was tagged in a photo in KoreWaCosplay’s birthday corner!!

Nyaha~~ \(´ー`)人(´∇｀)/  I was so happy when I saw all of this!
And all the birthday wishes were lovely, thank you all so much!!! (╯3╰)

I went to go buy some Chinese lanterns to let off as well, they were huge!! I seriously didnt expect them to be so big hahaha!!

XD oh my god,,,,, they really were huge hahahahaha! (Excuse my dweeb face >3<)

There were 10 in the box, so each of us set of one and made a wish~ They looked so beautiful floating away~~ I wanted them to keep floating around haha they were entertaining to watch!!

But alas,,, they blew away and burnt out! Although it was real fun playing around with them! X3

Bye bye to my lantern! *makes a wish*

All in all it really was a fun day! And although I may be a whole year older it sure was worth it! ^^v

Thank you all again and have a wonderful day!!

xxx

*Merry Christmas*

╰☆╮MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE ╰☆╮

Hope you all had a great day filled with tons of food and presents! \(´∇｀)/

 

I can’t believe it’s Christmas of 2012 already! Not to mention it’s only a few days until 2013!! O.o;;;

Time is really flying by!!

And I cant believe it’s my birthday tomorrow… Ah I feel so old now X’D  hahaha!
I don’t wanna get older!!! (╥o╥) *throws tantrum*

 

Anyway~~~ Just a little something for Christmas!!

 

It was great to cosplay Ciel Phantomhive again <33 Havent done him in ages!!

Although next time, I want to do a proper shoot, preferably with my outfit on X’D Haha!

 

 

Have a wonderful day!!

xx

*Hogsback review and Stuff*

>A< Ah I was so busy I didn’t have time to publish new posts~~! My bad….!!

But now all my photo shoots are over so I have time to write up more posts X3 ( although I’m going to busy with work now, so that I have cash to buy my new wigs, contacts and material hahaha)

Anyway, back to the update about Hogsback!
So as you can see, the first day was the first day~
On the second day I cosplayed Hijikata and Souji from Hakuouki, I think, I can’t remember the days XD They all blurred into one haha, but weither way, I cosplayed them at some point!

My booooys~~ <33

I’ve cosplayed Souji before so I was feeling fairly confident on the day, but for some reason, the whole day, in all my pictures my face looked so round and fat! TAT My confidence was crushed~~~~ *cries in corner*
Although, luckily the next day, when I cosplayed him again, I didn’t look fat XD SO my confidence came back haha!

 (fat day!)
 (none fat day >w<)

As for cosplaying Hijikata, I must admit I was a little worried for some reason haha, but I think my cosplay of him turned out ok (^3^)  so all is well~ 
(Even though I only finished the hatori the night before haha X’) )

What was really weird was the same day I cosplayed Hijikata was the same day as my fat Souji incident, but for some reason I didnt have a fat Hijikata face! (o.O) *confuuuuuzed*
My Souji cosplay really gave me a hard time this time round for some reason~~

The next day I cosplayed Gintoki!! <33 
Ah Gin-chan is always such fun to do X3

True as bob though it’d been raining all the past days, so there was MUD EVERYWHERE!! And we all know Gin-chan’s Yukata is predominately white…. (-_-) so you can just imagine the ninja moves I had to pull to avoid getting it full of mud! *le sigh* Luckily though, I managed to avoid most of the mud, and the mud that did get on it didn’t stain. (thank god…. >O<;; ) 

While we were at it, we did a request photo for Kimiko-chan~!

The water was so cold, my feet went numb! (o.O)  And then I got used to it XD kahaha!

Then I took single shots of Gin-chuuuuan~!

So charming~ Gintoki’s nose picking hahaha! XD

This last photo of Gintoki is the photo I submitted for our very first South African Cosplay calendar which is to be printed soon!!  

Anyway that’s the update for now!! Ill post again soon! :3

 

Hogsback Day 1!

Yesterday myself and Yuru arrived in Hogsback! >:D
After a 2 hour long drive in the heat we still had some work to do on our outfits~

…. mainly my outfits….. X’)

Was a really beautiful day though, so it was rather relaxing (and really hot) sitting in the sun painting my Hatori haha!
The mountains were so beautiful I couldn’t resist!!

(taken out my car window haha)

 

Anyway so after we finished painting and “unpacking”, more like our suitcases exploded, we oh so happily went to sleep so we could wake up early next morning for the photoshoot.

 

True as bob, it’s raining today! Just our luck!! This happened last year as well, it rained all five days we were here, so just hoping it doesn’t do that this time!!

But luckily we did get a few photo’s done before is started raining

I did Sakura, a girl! X’D How weird is that hahahahaha

Off to photo shoot then! With Naru carrying the tripod!

>:3 kuku~ Let’s all push Naru into the fish pond! Bleh!!
I think I almost did actually push Yuru in at one point X’D

 

 Camerawhoring haha

 

Take pictures of me!!!!!! Only meeeee! Beautiful Sakura who matches the flowers in the garden lol!

“And this is for calling me names!” >:) Mwhahahahaha!
I enjoyed punching Naru haha, did many retakes of this photo

partly because myself or Yuru kept falling over XP

Anyway~~~~ Then I changed and did Sasuke since Yuru had been begging me for a while to do him haha

I like this photo though, I feel/look manly?? <33 haha! ;3;

I dunno why, but anyway~

 

Also the mist was rolling in then, so we couldnt do many more photo’s outside, we relocated inside! Ill put up those photo’s another time though!

Im going to get a “build your own pizza” now!! >:3 Will do more/different cosplays tomorrow!!

Will update again soon~! <33